Job 7:16

Modern English Version

I loathe my life; I would not live forever; let me alone, for my days are emptiness.

Cross References

Job 10:1

“My soul loathes my life; I will freely give my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

1 Kings 19:4

But he went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough! Now, O  Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he became faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Psalm 39:13

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may become cheerful again, before I go away and am no more.

Job 14:6

turn from him, that he may rest, until he, as a hired man, finishes his day.

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? Stop then, and leave me alone that I may cheer up a little,

Job 9:21

“Though I were perfect, I would not know myself; I would despise my life.

Job 6:9

That it would please God to crush me, that He would let loose His hand and cut me off!

Jonah 4:3

Therefore, Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 78:33

Therefore their days did He consume like a breath, and their years in terror.

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are but a vapor; men of high degree are a lie; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than vapor.

Psalm 39:10

Remove Your stroke from me; I am coming to an end by the hostility of Your hand.

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, such as these who are of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Job 7:7

Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good.

Job 7:15

so that my soul chooses strangling, even death rather than my life.

Psalm 78:39

for He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away and does not return.

Jeremiah 8:3

Death will be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family, which remains in all the places wherever I have driven them, says the Lord of Hosts.

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks around like a shadow; surely they make an uproar in vain; he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I began to hate life, because the labor that was done under the sun was contemptible to me, for all of this is vanity and a chasing after wind.